Thank you Gov. Dukakis

In October of 1988 I met a cute redhead at a party in Hell’s Kitchen. She was prim and proper and looked for all the world like the perfect Republican… except for the big “Mike Dukakis” button on her lapel. It was this irresistible contrast the sparked me to strike up a conversation, and it was that conversation that ultimately led to this:

Tonight at the Invesco Field I had the opportunity to sit down next to Gov. Dukakis, shake his hand, show him that picture of my daughter, and personally thank him for the campaign that made her possible. As overwhelmingly emotional as the entire night has been, that was undoubtedly my personal highlight.

Coincidentally, I once thanked Brock Adams for allowing me to meet my future wife in 1986 when I worked on his campaign against Slade Gorton for U.S. Senate (he won!)and she was a volunteer. That was before he got in trouble for putting stuff in the drink of some lady (not his wife).

I, for one, am shocked that Goldy was able to tear himself from the bathhouses long enough to procreate…

Perhaps he’ll eventually live long enough to get the utopian socialist country he’d like where Obama or one of his surrogates will actually raise his own grandchild for his daughter as she is obviously too stupid,lazy or incompetent to do so on her own as indicated by the Democratic party message illuminated by Barack Obama tonight.

Wiping their ass from birth to death……….it’s the Democratic party way.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said this morning he is not McShame’s veep pick. Meanwhile, a private jet from Alaska reportedly landed in Dayton, Ohio, where McShame plans to announce his choice today.

Choosing Alaska Gov. Palin would confirm rumors that several big-name Republicans have shied away from joining a Third-Term McShame ticket, because Palin (age 44) is a newcomer to national politics from a solidly Republican state who brings virtually nothing to the ticket except gender.

The rumors swirling around Palin are perhaps prescient of a top Republican who opined yesterday that “the lucky Republicans are the ones who are not on the ticket.”

For the young Palin, it’s a no-risk deal that offers national exposure without cost. After being defeated in November, she could return to being Alaska’s governor and aim for an eventual U.S. senate seat. For McShame, November’s impending defeat will mean retirement, and a wide-open race for whichever hapless GOP souls are foolish enough to challenge President Obama’s re-election bid in 2012.

Sarah Palin has been Alaska’s governor for about 20 months. Her only previous political experience was 4 years on the city council of Wasilla, Alaska, a town whose 2000 census population was less than 5,500 people.

This is who McCain would choose to succeed him if his 71-year-old ticker quits? Absurd! That would be like electing someone from the Renton School Board or the Fife Water District president.

Sorry, folks, but the White House is not an entry-level job and given the status of McCain’s dementia the reality is that if the GOP ticket somehow wins in November, McCain’s vice president is very likely to assume the responsibilities, if not the actual office, of the presidency.

@6 What are you moaning about? Bush didn’t raise his daughters. From their out-of-control public behavior, it’s obvious they had no parental supervision or upbringing whatsoever. Like him, they were raised in caves by wolves.

I wonder if a study has ever been done that shows if offspring tend to take the party affiliation of their parents? I’d be curious if most of the people here had liberal or conservative parents. I turned out the opposite of mine. My parents were Republicans.

“When the Alaska Creamery Board recommended closing Matanuska Maid Dairy, an unprofitable state-owned business, Palin objected, citing concern for the impact on dairy farmers and the fact that the Dairy had just received $600,000 in state money. When Palin learned that only the Board of Agriculture and Conservation could appoint Creamery Board members, she … replaced the entire … Board of Agriculture and Conservation. The new board … reversed the decision to close [and] approved milk price increases … in an attempt to control fiscal losses, even though milk from Washington was already offered in Alaskan stores at lower prices. In the end, the dairy was forced to close, and the state tried to sell the assets to pay off its debts but received no bids.”

But then, it’s hard to find a Republican who isn’t a fucking socialist. For all the lip service they pay to “free markets” and “competition,” in reality the Looter Class lives off the taxes paid by the working and middle classes (a/k/a the Looted Classes). For example, Bush’s cabinet is filled with ex-CEOs, but not one of them ever ran a company that had to make a profit in an open competitive market — they’re all experts at sucking on the public tit.

It’s not surprising that the GOP has become America’s socialist-leaning party, as all the prominent neocons who dominate the party’s ideology and agenda are former commies of the Trotskyite school who, after rationalizing away what they saw as trivial details of central economic planning, concluded that communism and fascism are essentially the same except for the salaries.

Drudge has a campaign button of McCain/Random Vagina. The expressions on their faces look like McCain/RV were caught in a restaurant with the secretary who can’t believe her luck at having “snatched” the CEO.

@6 Not sure that experience is the characteristic that you want to be pick on, seeing that Obamessiah’s main accomplishment seems to be head of the Harvard Law Review. Remember, the only reason he even got himself elected senator is that Ryan preferred watching his wife bang other guys, opening the door for B. Hussein to coast to victory over certifiable nut-bag Alan Keyes. Otherwise, he would still be in Chicago sipping white whine with terrorist scum like Bill Ayers.

McCain puts Palin on the ticket and many of those women who had tears in their eyes when Hillary lost the nomination because they wanted so badly to see a woman in the White House and were pissed by the way she was treated are now in play.

Spokesmen for the two G.O.P./B.I.A.W. Party congressmen announced yesterday they would not attend their party’s national convention next week. Other notable AWOLs from the convention include Dino Rossi and Oregon Senator Gordon Smith.

Dino Rossi didn’t serve in the military. He was born in 1959. He was 21 years old — prime military age — during the Gulf War. Why did Dino avoid serving his country in wartime? I’m just an aging Vietnam Vet wondering if this young pup was yellow …

Ha. Palin, as the VP candidate, has MORE executive experience than your Presidential candidate.

And if Palin’s a socialist, call it straight. That makes Obama a communist. Obama’s call for “mandatory volunteerism” springs to mind.

Add in the demand for criminal prosecution of your political enemies (see Kurtz, Stanley – currently looking into the links between Obama and the weather underground terrorists.) and you have the makings of a right fine Soviet.

McCain may take himself seriously, but any serious Republican strategist will regard a McCain/Palin ticket as a throwaway and this election as a goner. People who make their living by trying to elect Republicans are already focusing on 2012.

McCain picks Sarah Palin. Now tie her to Uncle Ted and sink them both like a stone. Just what this country needs as a VP, some one who is mean and avenge full. When the head of the Alaska State Troopers would not fire her ex-brother in-law she fired him.

Larry Kudlow of CNBC’s “Kudlow & Co.” asked her about the possibility of becoming McCain’s ticket mate.
Palin replied: “As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that VP slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question.”

The volatile issue of teaching creation science in public schools popped up in the Alaska governor’s race this week when Republican Sarah Palin said she thinks creationism should be taught alongside evolution in the state’s public classrooms.

Palin was answering a question from the moderator near the conclusion of Wednesday night’s televised debate on KAKM Channel 7 when she said, ‘Teach both. You know, don’t be afraid of information. Healthy debate is so important, and it’s so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both.‘

We can say whatever we want to about Sarah Palin, but the amount of press coverage that is going to be resulting in the next seven days is going to be truly enormous. For better or worse, there will be a LOT more coverage of Palin in the next week or so, than there was of Joe Biden in the previous week or so.

@52 Richard: But are you seeing what they’re offering-up to the media? A high school pep rally!–and not a terribly exciting one at that. I’m trying to be objective, but I’m feeling embarrassed for McCain right now–the way I always feel for Bush whenever I hear him struggling through a press conference…

“I am pleased to see Senator Obama acknowledge the huge potential Alaska’s natural gas reserves represent in terms of clean energy and sound jobs,” Governor Palin said. “The steps taken by the Alaska State Legislature this past week demonstrate that we are ready, willing and able to supply the energy our nation needs.”

Republican officials said yesterday that they are considering delaying the start of the GOP convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul because of Tropical Storm Gustav, which is on track to hit the Gulf Coast, and possibly New Orleans, as a full-force hurricane early next week.

The threat is serious enough that White House officials are also debating whether President Bush should cancel his scheduled convention appearance on Monday, the first day of the convention, according to administration officials and others familiar with the discussion.

Will Palin lead the attack on Obama’s supposed lack of experience? No. McCain just flip-flopped again. The debate now turns to the question of judgement. Christ, did the Republicans ever fuck up. Talk about playing into Obama’s hand.

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